Guidelines for dissertations, theses, and project reports in the
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1. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The goal of the MSU thesis template is to facilitate producing dissertations theses dissertation proposals thesis proposals and project reports in an acceptable form using the IATEX typesetting system 11 What is BIFX IATEX is a typesetting system that is used primarily in academia ATEX files are compat ible with many academic publishers typesetting systems For example IZTEX files are one of the preferred forms for final submission of articles to the various IEEE Transactions ETFX has very strong capabilities for typesetting mathematics beautifully and for man aging bibliographies Even though its user interface is not friendly compared to com mercial word processors suitable style files obviate concern for detailed formatting issues Consequently some students will find it attractive for typesetting dissertations theses pro posals and project reports BIEX is a markup language which resembles a programming language Consequently learning to use IATEX is similar to learning a programming language ATEX is open source software which is available for free over the Internet IATEX2e is the current version See http www ctan org for information Donald Knuth wrote the foundational typesetting software TEX and Leslie Lamport wrote the initial version of IFEX TEX is usually pronounced tek similar to the tech in technology and so STEX is often pronounce2. d Edit the name of your abstract file e Edit the dedication f Edit the name of your acknowledgments file g Edit the name of your list of symbols file if any Remove the related commands if a list of symbols is not needed h Edit the title of each chapter and its file name and similarly each appendix 6 Write the body of your document making a separate file for each chapter Similarly write any appendices in separate files See Chapter 4 7 Write the abstract in a separate file 8 Write the acknowledgments in a separate file 9 Compile your document resulting in a x pdf file For your initial test most of the component files can be copies of components of the example thesis which you will replace as you write your thesis 2 6 1 Compile Using TgXworks Use the following commands to typeset your thesis using TEX works 1 In the your thesis directory double click on your thesis tex This will run TEX works and open the editor for this file 2 Edit the graphics format declaration A makes the rest of the line a comment Put a on the line you want disabled and remove the from the line you want enabled according to the type of graphics files you plan to use For example Nusepackage pdftex graphicx MSU for x jpg etc usepackage dvips graphicx MSU for x eps only 3 Verify that the processing tool in the space in the top left of the T Xworks window is the batch file you want for
3. e INLIBRARY where can I find this again e ISBN publisher s code 21 e ABSTRACT a copy of the abstract or a summary Compare empty bib to ieeecsexamples bib The most common biblio graphic entries are BOOK 6 ARTICLE 17 and GINPROCEEDINGS 18 The first field in an entry is the citekey You need to devise an easy to remember system of citekey codes that is very likely to give a unique citekey for each bibliography entry In general the citekeys in the x bib files are case sensitive For example my coding system is based on the initials of the authors last names the year of publication and an abbreviation for the magazine or conference 17 18 I distinguish ambiguous situations by an appended page number The labels for books are based on initials and year 6 Single authors are represented by last name e g Allen instead of initials Other people use different coding schemes The important point is that each citekey must be unique Empty fields are represented by empty braces Text goes inside braces and num bers do not need braces BibTeX has three letter abbreviations for the months of the year which do not go in braces jan feb etc See the BibTeX section of your IZTEX book for details 3 3 How to Create an Abbreviations Bibliography File For consistency and convenience some abbreviations could be used in BibTeX such as journal name and society name For example AC
4. 35 CHAPTER 5 TYPESETTING TABLES AND FIGURES This chapter presents features that will help you add figures and tables to your thesis If you have several consecutive pages of figures and tables called floats in publishing jargon the University strongly recommends that you complete your text discussion to a logical break and then force a page break followed by the floats The BIEX command clearpage will force a page break and typeset all pending floats up to that point 5 1 Tables msuthesis cls takes care of formatting tables captions and the associated List of Tables entries The following are two examples Table 5 1 lists meat prices for gnats gnus and other animals and Table 5 2 is in landscape orientation it also has a footnote as an example For ordinary tables use Table filename This is a caption Note the capital T The file filename tex contains the content of the table for example begin tabular hline headings hline tabular data hline end tabular 36 Table 5 1 Meat Prices Portrait Item Price gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 Long captions are supported by msuthesis cls Do not put footnotes or citations in captions because they will be repeated in the List of Tables Sometimes a table needs to be displayed in landscape orientation Put the content of the table 1 e the begin
5. 3 1 Using EndNote and BIBTEX o o een 18 3 1 1 Using EndNote with Publishers Databases 19 3 12 Transferring Data from EndNote to BIBTEX 20 3 2 Managing Your Bibliography Data 21 3 3 How to Create an Abbreviations Bibliography File 22 3 4 Editing BIBTEX Data s rar Yon 23 3 5 Citations acesti AS as XR ee SS AE x 26 4 TYPESETTING THE BODY OF YOUR THESIS 27 4 1 Oreanize Your Filesi are s ve es E ARa ani Jaala e og 27 4 2 LEocat Definitions 3539 9 09 9099 AA AA 28 4 3 Chapter Titles Da a DEPEMEH E 4 28 4 4 ew MM HEC CX 29 4 4 1 Subsection Title without Paragraph 29 4 4 1 1 Subsection Title with Paragraph 29 4 4 1 2 Another Subsubsection test 29 4 5 When There is a Paragraph ss 29 4 6 Paragraphs s su aa 30 4 7 JUSHACAUON AR TV ap du de de pus 31 4 8 Special Considerations Rot EE ee eS eR Res 31 4 8 1 Quotation Marks 31 4 8 2 DAS NES ua amp peo a Eo Sil od 2 32 4 8 3 SPA Um ete e eis e e E a TEO ee EVE EKUN 32 4 8 3 1 Space After a Period lt ti se ete o S SA 32 4 8 3 2 EPS ARA MDA S ec a SN 32 4 8 4 Special C hatgetels sg taco fa 530 a te Sor do iae Soy fug 32 4 8 5 Emph sized Types v Tx we ee RS RUD ON 33 4 8 6 LineBreaks y 1 9 32890 22008 32978 809 30 SB ane ANG 33 4 9 Footnotes Jr id ces dd a a we SA ne as 33 4 10 Quotations TS IE SIA AS in E A 33 AAA SS RN Bee
6. e Specify these settings Preferred paper letter Install missing packages on the fly yes It is very important to select letter size paper Many students make the mistake of letting the default size be European A4 size which the MSU Library will not accept 2 2 Test TpXworks TEX works is a convenient word processor included with all MiKTEX installations The instructions here assume that you are using TEX works All IATEX files are ASCII text except graphics files and the final x pdf document While virtually any text editor can be used to create ATEX documents TEX works is very convenient Test whether MiKTEX is installed properly by the following steps 1 Run the TEgXworks program by clicking Start menu All Programs MiKTeX 2 9 and TeXworks 2 Select Help and A short manual for TeXworks 3 Read Chapter 3 First steps and do the exercise in section 3 1 Creating a docu ment 2 3 Install the MSU Thesis Template The MSU thesis template consists of the following major components collected together in the nsuexamplethesis zip file Compilation of the example thesis will generate other files e A BIEX class file msuthesis cls which defines the document style e A BIBTEX bibliography style file msucs bst which defines the references style of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Other bibliography styles are provided with TEX and yet others are available on the Web e Batch files for
7. paring Theses and Dissertations 8 which we refer to as the Standards In the following we uses the word document to mean a dissertation thesis proposal or project report in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering The University requires that all dissertations and theses comply with the Standards latest edition 1 3 Departmental Requirements In addition to the university requirements the Department of Computer Science and Engineering requires that all master s project reports master s thesis proposals and doc toral dissertation proposals also comply with the Standards Even though the department may provide tools or templates to facilitate preparing a document the student is fully responsible for assuring that the final document complies with the Standards and the de partmental requirements reproduced below The Standards leave certain issues to be decided by the student s department which in our case is the Department of Computer Science and Engineering In addition to the University s requirements the following specifies departmental style requirements for dis sertations theses proposals and project reports as published on the department Web site 1 The baseline type size shall be 12 points Exceptions are explained in the Standards 2 The base font style shall be one of the following e Times http www grad msstate edu current publications http www cse msstate edu academics gradstud the
8. 4 256 cene a A ao CA ro d 8 1 Contributions ch 8 2 For Further Research REFERENCES Fet ENS AAA AAA v APPENDIX AS AN APPENDIX TITLE 4 22 13 is E AA A 378 A l Sitar tea Chapter uuu qute ee e 8 A 2 Another Appendix Section ss vi 5 1 52 5 3 Meat Prices Portrait LIST OF TABLES Meat Prices Landscape vac wes ale Moa Ge ae ita Whe xe x Meat Prices vii LIST OF FIGURES viii LIST OF SYMBOLS ABBREVIATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE This section is optional and may be formatted in an appropriate manner The title Vlistofsymbolsname may be redefined as needed g A variable representing gnats G A variable representing gnus NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration gnat A small animal found in the North Woods that causes no end of trouble gnu large animal found in crossword puzzles that causes no end of trouble The following are nonstandard KTEX commands that are defined by msuthesis cls Nandeqnref Vbegin case begin cor begin defn begin lem begin pf begin thm commacite defaultspacing eg Neqnref Egnref Vegnsref Egnsref etal etc Figure Figuredbl figureref Figureref 1X Vie newspacing periodcite qed rotatedfigure rotatedtable rotatedtablewithfigure singlespacing spacecite Table Tablecontinued XTabledb1 NTabledblwithfigure Ntableref Tableref Tablewithfigure vs
9. Toward Program Illustration technical report Computer Systems Re search Group University of Toronto Toronto 1977 A N Zhirabok and A E Shumskii Electronnoe modelirovanie Electronic Model ing Energoatomizdat Leningrad 1984 in Russian 58 APPENDIX A AN APPENDIX TITLE 59 A 1 Similar to a Chapter Appendices are written like the body of the paper using chapter LEX numbers them with capital letters The MSU library requires that each appendix have a separator page The following lines in examplethesis tex achieve this MSU library requires title page for each appendix renewcommand appendixname vspace 2 5in Appendix Sfor appendix title page chapter An Appendix Title newpage Send of appendix title page input exappendix content of appendix The vspace command provides the proper layout of the title page The newpage command forces a page break after the title page Use the Achapter command for each appendix and put newpage after each chapter command A 2 Another Appendix Section An appendix can have multiple sections 60
10. biblabels includes a comma periodcite biblabels includes a period See http computer org portal web publications style refs 26 CHAPTER 4 TYPESETTING THE BODY OF YOUR THESIS This chapter has suggestions to make preparing your document easier The IEEE Com puter Society s advice to authors will also be generally helpful to you especially the details in the Special Sections This chapter explains tips and commands that will help you prop erly typeset the body of your thesis This guideline assumes that you will submit articles based on your thesis for publication in journals and conferences Consequently this chap ter includes a variety of commands defined by msuthesis cls that you can redefine when your are preparing an article for a journal Thus your writing x tex will need few modifications to conform to the journal s style requirements Some journals and con ferences provide IZTEX style files as well 4 1 Organize Your Files You may be able to publish the content of individual chapters of your thesis or disserta tion as journal articles Note that journal articles do not have chapters To allow for possible publication put all chapter commands in your main thesis file e g thesis tex and let section be the highest level in any chapter file Inttp computer org portal web publications styleguide 27 You may organize additional source files hierarchically and use the IZTEX command i
11. in the Console output tab at the bottom of the TEXworks window 6 The resulting examplethesis pdf will open in a new TEXworks window or will refresh if the examplethesis pdf window is already open If there is an error the Console output tab will show the error message Press the red X button in the top left where the green compile button was to cancel the compile 2 5 2 Compile Using the Command Line If you prefer not to use TeXworks to run the batch file you can run the commands in the batch file at the Windows command line one by one 2 5 2 1 Compile with PDF Graphics The following steps will compile the example thesis for x pdf png and jpg graphics files 1 Open the Windows command line window and navigate to your example thesis di rectory 2 At the Windows command line run the following commands pdflatex examplethesis bibtex examplethesis pdflatex examplethesis pdflatex examplethesis pdflatex examplethesis The repeated pdf latex commands are necessary to resolve cross references 3 The resulting log files and examplethesis pdf are now in the directory 12 2 5 2 2 Compile with EPS Graphics The following steps will compile the example thesis for x eps graphics files 1 Open the Windows command line window and navigate to your example thesis di rectory At the Windows command line run the following commands latex examplethesis bibtex examplethesis latex examplet
12. research problem has been answered 8 1 Contributions This example thesis made no contribution to knowledge of science and technology 8 2 For Further Research Gnats and gnus is a facinating subject with many possible topics for further research 56 REFERENCES 1 A J Albrecht Measuring Application Development Productivity Programmer Productivity Issues for the Eighties C Jones ed IEEE CS Press Los Alamitos California 1981 pp 34 43 2 M A Arbib ed The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks MIT Press Cambridge Massachusetts 1998 3 Unix System V Interface Definition issue 2 vol 2 AT amp T Murray Hill New Jersey 1986 4 L P Burka A Hypertext History of Multiuser Dimensions MUD History http www ccs neu edu home home lpb mud history html current 5 Dec 2000 5 J Butler CASE Outlook System Development Newsletter Applied Computer Research Phoenix Arizona Nov 1987 p 3 6 R Elmasri and S B Navathe Fundamentals of Database Systems Ben jamin Cummings Redwood City California 1992 7 B Fagin A Parallel Execution Model for Prolog doctoral dissertation Department of Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley California 1987 8 Graduate School Standards for Preparing Theses and Dissertations 6th edition Mississippi State University Mississippi State Mississippi 2012 9 C Hoffman and J Hopcroft Quadratic Blending Surfa
13. subsection immediately follows use the appropriate msuthesis cls command so that the spacing between titles conforms to the Standards Note there are no capital letters in the command names sectionnoparagraph This is a Title subsectionnoparagraph This is a Title subsubsectionnoparagraph This is a Title Similar commands with capital letters camel case are deprecated and therefore should no longer be used with this template They will work but are not recommended for example Sect ionNoParagraph 4 4 1 2 Another Subsubsection test Each level of the outline should have at least two items 4 5 When There is a Paragraph The standard 4TRX commands section subsection and subsubsection with lower case s will work when there is a paragraph following the section title section This is a Title This is a paragraph subsection This is a Title This is a paragraph subsubsection This is a Title This is a paragraph 29 Similar commands with capital letters camel case are deprecated and therefore should no longer be used with this template They will work but are not recommended namely NSect ion SubSection and NSubSubSection Titled paragraphs The standard TEX command paragraph can be used to define titled paragraphs The text of the paragraph begins on the same line as the title These titled paragraphs are are not included in the table of contents 4 6 Paragraphs One or more blank lin
14. the top of a 45 page The following command is used when you want the figure to span two columns if the document is in two column format If this command is used in a one column document such as a thesis then the figure is typeset the same as the ordinary AFigure command Figuredbl filename figwidth This is a Caption This command lets your thesis chapter s x tex file be practically the same as your conference paper s with respect to figures Journals have various styles for referring to figure numbers in paragraphs The fol lowing commands are defined by msuthesis cls as alternatives to the standard TEX command Figure ref fig filename figureref filename in middle of sentence Figureref filename as first word of sentence where filename is the identifier for your art work 46 CHAPTER 6 TYPESETTING MATHEMATICS 6 1 Embedded Mathematics BIEX is good at typesetting mathematical formulas embedded in ordinary text like x 3y Ta ora gt z y gt x Remember that a letter like x is a formula when it denotes a mathematical symbol and should be treated as one Avoid stacking symbols and tall symbols when mathematics is embedded in paragraphs because it distorts line spacing 6 2 Displayed Mathematics Mathematical formulas may also be displayed separated from paragraphs by white space The Standards requires all equations to be numbered The begin equation environment and N1
15. to manage bibliography data for documents prepared using IATEX especially when you have a large number of references Members of the MSU community may purchase EndNote at Access Services in the Mitchell Memorial Library BIBTEX is free and is included with BIEX packages First of all EndNote needs to be installed on your machine A overview of installing and using EndNote in MS Windows is explained at http www endnote com support helpdocs ENX5_GettingStartedGuide_Win pdf BIBTEX is installed as part of your TEX installation 3 1 1 Using EndNote with Publishers Databases We can export bibliographic data for articles from major databases like ACM Digi tal Library IEEE Electronic Library IEEE Xplore Scopus ComputerScience Index and Google Scholar The following shows how to export citation entries from IEEE Xplore to EndNote 1 Search for articles in the IEEE database 2 Select all the articles that you want to export from the IEEE database to EndNote 3 Click Download Citations icon at the top of the search page 4 You have an option to include the abstract into your citation entry Select the radio button Citation and Abstract from the Include panel In the Format panel select the last option EndNote Click Download Citations button You are now done with the publisher s database The x RIS file is saved in the location you specified O 0 N QN tA Double click the RIS file to load the referenc
16. A TS SS A a 34 AN2 POS aa 3 8 a sos a Oh ee Se dex Oe BeOS SS 34 4 13 Common Abbreviations lens 35 5 TYPESETTING TABLES AND FIGURES 36 5 1 Tables 4d a A eee 36 52 PISULBSo ca oh in ae ie Sa A iOS AREE AA 43 6 TYPESETTING MATHEMATICS 0 6 1 Embedded Mathematics 6 2 Displayed Mathematics llle 6 3 Theorems 224 x eR Ug es 7 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS del How can I remove DRAFT on the title page 1 2 Why can t BIEX find my files ie E WE eee x 1 3 How do I create subsubsubsection3 5 3 1 12 7 4 How do I make block style captions 7 5 How do I fix not enough memory for figures and tables 7 6 How can I refer to a list of equations tables or figures 1 1 How can I make a table heading span more than one column 7 8 Why is a missing inserted e 7 9 How can I typeset John Wiley amp Sons in a reference 7 10 How can I typeset a tilda in a URL 7 11 How can I change to single spacing 7 12 How can I change to bold and then back to normal print 7 13 How can I create a superscript or subscript 7 14 How can I make a fraction in an equation 7 15 How can I typeset all my references 7 16 Why is there an extra quotation mark in my reference B CONCLUSIONS
17. FT 7 2 Why can t BTFX find my files You must put all files for your document in the same directory including all the graph ics files A warning in the 1log file may indicates that you had a command like the following NFigure Drawings tiles fuel The template cannot handle paths Remove paths in all Figure Table and input commands 7 3 How do I create subsubsubsection 3 5 3 1 1 The template does not support subsubsubsections They are usually short and can often be included in the higher level subsubsection A sentence or two could make the transition for the reader in lieu of a subsubsubsection title An alternative workaround is to create at list See your TEX book for details 50 7 4 How do I make block style captions Some journals use a block caption style where the caption explains the figure or table This template does not support block caption style The template supports centered caption style However a user of the template provided the following substitute code which adds a note to the Figure command and to the Table command Text for a note explaining the figure or table goes in the argument and appears below the figure or table not as part of the caption In between your paragraphs you provide the following commands to define a figure or table for example setlength figwidth 0 4 linewidth Figure lion figwidth Lion A note goes here Table prices Meat Prices A note g
18. Guidelines for dissertations theses and project reports in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Typesetting using LaTeX By Edward B Allen A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Mississippi State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mississippi State Mississippi May 2015 Copyright by Edward B Allen 2015 Guidelines for dissertations theses and project reports in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Typesetting using LaTeX By Edward B Allen Approved Donna S Reese Major Professor Edward Allen Luke Committee Member J Edward Swan II Committee Member T J Jankun Kelly Graduate Coordinator Jason M Keith Interim Dean Bagley College of Engineering Name Edward B Allen Date of Degree May 15 2015 Institution Mississippi State University Major Field Computer Science Major Professor Dr Donna S Reese Title of Study Guidelines for dissertations theses and project reports in the Depart ment of Computer Science and Engineering Typesetting using LaTeX Pages of Study 60 Candidate for Degree of Master of Science This thesis explains how to produce a thesis using TFX Abstracts for technical publi cations should have the following characteristics Limit the length of the abstract 1 less than 150 words for a master s
19. M Transactions on Software Engineer ing and Methodology is a long name In order to do so start up TeXWorks or a simple text editor and then follow these steps 22 3 4 Create a file to contain a list of abbreviation e g abbrv bib using the follow ing syntax for example STRING TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Save your edit In your bibliography data file e g myBib bib file go to the reference entry that you want to edit Edit the abbreviation that you want to use for that field e g the journal name TOSEM without enclosing braces For example journal TOSEM Save your edit Open your main LaTeX file e g thesis tex for editing add your abbreviation x bibfile name e g abbrv in Nnewcommand Nbiblist abbrv myBib where abbrv bib is the file that contains your abbreviation list and myBib bib contains bibliography data Editing BIBTEX Data Some data formats in EndNote are not compatible with BIBTEX and IEX The fol lowing items of each reference need to be checked and edited by editing your x bib file using TeXworks or a simple text editor e Label Add a unique label to identify each x bib entry such as A11en02METRICS For example this should look like the following on the first line of the x bib entry INPROCEEDINGS AllenO2METRICS e Author name Edit the author name to include the first name if known instead
20. abel command should be used to generate the equation number pop See 6 1 A simple displayed formula is one line long multiline formulas require special format ting commands and the begin eqnarray environment Don t start a paragraph with a displayed equation nor make one a paragraph by itself You should use begin equation and end equation to define one equa tion so that equation numbers are generated instead of X and X It is convenient to use begin eqnarray and end eqnarray to define all equations just in case a long 47 equation needs to be broken into multiple lines later See your BTEX book for the syntax details Reference an equation like this Equation 6 1 If you need to reference an equation number put a label eq label command at the end of the equation Journals have various standards for referring to equation numbers in paragraphs The following com mands are provided by msuthesis cls as an alternative to the standard TEX com mand Equation ref eq label eqnref lable Sin middle of sentence eqnsref firstlabel Sin middle of sentence andegnref lastlabel Sat end of list Eqnref label Sat start of sentence Eqnsref firstlabel Sat start of sentence If you are referring to one equation use eqnref label or as the first word in a sentence Eqnref label If you are referring to a list of equation numbers use eqnsref firstlabel ref eq se
21. ces technical report TR 85 674 Computer Science Department Cornell University Ithaca New York 1985 10 ZEEE Std 1596 1992 Scalable Coherent Interface SCI IEEE Piscataway New Jersey 1992 11 Recommendation ITU R BT 601 Encoding Parameters of Digital Television for Stu dios International Telecommunications Union Geneva 1992 12 T Nakayama et al NEC Corporation Develops 32 Bit RISC Microprocessor Nikkei Electronics vol 6 no 12 Dec 1995 pp 111 121 in Japanese 13 W M Newman and R F Sproull Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics McGraw Hill Hightstown New Jersey 1979 57 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W M Newman and R F Sproull Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics CD ROM McGraw Hill Hightstown New Jersey 1979 M Nichols The Graphical Kernel System in Prolog master s thesis Department of Computer Science and Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy New York 1985 Requirements for Software Engineering Databases technical memo Imperial Software Technology London 1983 I E Sutherland R F Sproull and R A Schumaker A Characterization of 10 Hidden Surface Algorithms ACM Computing Surveys vol 6 no 1 Mar 1974 pp 1 55 M Weiser Program Slicing Proceedings 14th International Conference on Data Engineering San Diego California 1998 IEEE Computer Society pp 439 449 E Yarwood
22. compiling documents using TEXworks compile pdf bat and compile eps bat e A file with empty templates for references empty bib e Source files for this example thesis document A primary IATEX source file for the example thesis examplethesis tex Other IATEX source files x tex A BIBTEX references file ieeecsexamples bib Graphics files in various formats for figures The following steps will install the MSU thesis template 1 Create a separate directory for the MSU thesis template 2 Download the MSU thesis template files to your directory from the Computer Science and Engineering Department Web site http www cse msstate edu allen Msuthesis We recommend downloading the zip file instead of downloading the files of the template one by one 3 Extract all files from the x zip file using Windows features 4 Change the name of the file compile pdf bat to compile pdf bat and similarly change the name of compile eps bat to compile eps bat This is necessary to avoid problems with some antivirus software while downloading 2 4 Configure TpXworks By default TEX works is not configured to properly compile documents with the MSU thesis template To configure TEX works do the following steps 1 Run TEX works 2 Click Edit Preferences and Typesetting See the Processing tools area Click on the button with the plus sign in the lower right corner 3 For pdf x png and x jpg graphics fil
23. condlabel andegqnref thirdlabel or similarly at the beginning of a sentence Eqnsref firstlabel etc Equa tion 6 2 is an example of a multiline equation y ar b cxt d 6 2 6 3 Theorems The following theorem environments are defined by msuthesis cls for compati bility with journals published by Elsevier and Springer 48 begin thm Theorem begin lem Lemma begin cor Corollary begin defn Definition begin case Case begin pf Proof oe The command qed is defined by msuthesis cls to produce a black box it is used by the pf environment at the end of proofs The Standards allows bold theorem titles and italics theorem text which is the LIX default style The following are examples of these Theorem 1 Title of theorem This is an example theorem Proof This is a proof u Lemma 1 Title of lemma This is an example lemma Proof This is another proof E Corollary 1 Title of corollary This is an example corollary Definition 1 Title of definition This is an example definition Case 1 Title of case This is an example case Case 2 Another title of another case This is another case 49 CHAPTER 7 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 7 1 How can I remove DRAFT on the title page The third line of examplethesis tex is Nusepackage light first draftcopy Sremove for final Putting a at the beginning of this line will make this line a comment disabling DRA
24. ctions Dept style 5 e Subsubsubsections are not supported by this template e g section 1 2 3 4 5 CHAPTER 2 GETTING STARTED Before a BIEX document can be compiled appropriate software must be installed and setup This chapter assumes a Windows XP or later operating system environment and full administrative rights granted to the installing user account The overall process has the following steps 1 Install the MiKTEX system 2 Test TEX works included with MiKTEX to verify that MiKTEX installed success fully 3 Install the MSU thesis template 4 Configure TEX works for use with the MSU thesis template 5 Test the MSU thesis template by compiling this document 6 Set up and compile your document 2 Install MiKTEX MiKTpx is a IMEX package for Windows It consists of a large collection of com ponents by many authors in the worldwide TEX community The 32 bit version is pre ferred because at of the time of this writing the 64 bit version is experimental Other TeX packages are available for other operating system environments The steps to install MiK TEX change from time to time The following highlights important choices e Download the latest version of MiKTEX from http miktex org The Basic version is ok because MiKTEX will later download the packages automatically as needed e Install for just you unless you are installing for other users of the target computer e Accept the default paths
25. d by msuthesis cls In general the tabular environment takes care of table widths However if you need to specify the width of a column in a table redefine At abwidth relative to linewidth just prior to defining the table and then use it as needed within your tabular environment For example for one half of the line width use this command setlength tabwidth 0 5 linewidth msuthesis cls constructs a label by making tab a prefix to your file name so if needed you can use ref tab filename Journals have various standards for referring to table numbers in paragraphs The following commands are alternatives to the standard TEX command Table ref tab filename tableref filename Sin middle of sentence Tableref filename Sas first word of sentence where filename is the identifier for your table data 42 5 2 Figures The following is an example A lion as shown in Figure 5 1 eats gnus Gnats eat lions Figure 5 1 Lion Compile pdf bat expects all art work to be x jpg png or x pdf with no embedded captions Vector graphics encapsulated in x pdf files will scale better than raster graphics Compile_eps bat expects all art work to be x eps files with no embedded cap tions If you do not yet have your art work then you may copy the file temporary jpg or temporary eps to the proper filename for temporary use For example we do not yet have a drawing of a gnat so Figure 5 2 is a temporary p
26. d lah tek or lay tek Because IATEX input files are ASCII any text editor may be used to edit text files You will need to spend some effort learning to use MITEX Books and Web sites are readily available Purchase a book on LIX You will need it There are several good books available purchasing one is a good investment There is also a wealth of information resources on the Web This guideline assumes you are familiar with IATEX basics Try some simple short documents as you study your IFEX book before studying the details in this guideline This guideline is not a tutorial on TEX However it is an example You can look at the x tex files that are components of this document and see how to implement various features Unless otherwise noted commands are standard TFX features This guideline describes how to typeset a document that is compatible with the re quirements of Mississippi State University and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering using IZTEX and the MSU thesis template files Even though it is not a thesis this document is itself formatted like a master s thesis so its source files can be used as the starting point for your document For example http en wikibooks org wiki LaTeX 3Much of the tutorial material regarding standard IATEX was supplied verbatim as documentation with the software 1 2 University Requirements The Graduate School of Mississippi State University publishes the Standards for Pre
27. e data into EndNote The process for other publishers databases is similar 19 3 1 2 Transferring Data from EndNote to BIBTEX When using EndNote make sure that your output style is BIBTEX Select Edit Output Styles and then choose BIBTEX Export Previewing the output format can be done by clicking on the Preview tab under the reference list Follow the steps below to transfer data from EndNote to BIBTEX Exporting one reference to BIBTEX 1 Select the reference that you want to export by clicking on that reference 2 Select File Export on the menu bar 3 Choose the directory and type the name of the file that you want to save the reference to in the File name textbox e g myBib bib 4 Click Save Exporting all reference to BIBTEX 1 Press Ctrl Aon your keyboard to select every reference you have in EndNote 2 Select File Export on the menu bar 3 Choose the directory and type the name of the file that you want to save the reference to in the File name text box e g myBib bib 4 Click Save Exporting some references to BIBTEX 1 Create a group of references that your want to export to BIBTEX by selecting Groups Create Group on the menu bar 2 Type in your group name in the text box that appears under My Groups on the left panal e g thesis group 3 Right click on the reference that you want to add to the group and select Add Refer ences To thesis group or hold the Ct x1 button and click
28. emphasized by using an italic type style denoted by the Nem command A long segment of text can also be emphasized in this way Text within such a segment given additional emphasis with Roman type Italic type loses its ability to emphasize and become simply distracting when used excessively The University s Standards discourages the use of italics for emphasis but italics is accepted for mathematics 4 8 6 Line Breaks There are standard commands to prevent TEX from breaking a line where it might otherwise do so This may be at a space as between the Mr and Jones in Mr Jones or within a word especially when the word is a symbol like itemnum that makes little sense when hyphenated across lines See your ATEX book for details 49 Footnotes Footnotes pose no problem 4 10 Quotations Text is displayed by indenting it from the left margin Quotations are commonly dis played There are short quotations This is a short a quotation It consists of a single paragraph of text There is no paragraph indentation gt This is an example of a footnote 39 and longer ones This is a longer quotation It consists of two paragraphs of text The beginning of each paragraph is indicated by an extra indentation This is the second paragraph of the quotation It is just as dull as the first paragraph 411 Lists Another frequently displayed structure is a list The following is an example of an itemized lis
29. en Group I thank my committee for their comments on this thesis and I thank Dr Donna S Reese for directing this research iii TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICACI N id o don po e abeat re E at ab BNS ab d ii ACKNOWLEDGEMEN ES 3 2 36 2 o a Re Ee p Age iii LIS TOI TABLES 044 Nadie d Sh te Sep e oe te So e ads vii LEISFOF FIGURES s ava w 3 4 e NBI am OUS BI AA AA viii LIST OF SYMBOLS ABBREVIATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE ix CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 2k ED Ea PTS UE C XoR as OR 4 1 1 1 Whatis BIEX 2224 24 a AA 1 12 University Requirements 329 TRY 3 1 3 Departmental Requirements se 3 1 4 Limitations of this Template rss 5 2 4 AGE EING cS l AREBD A A Shu 7 2 1 Tostal MIK TEX La Lie np ger AA E E E Be swe 2 7 2 2 Test p CWODRS A AO AA EO ROSE 8 2 3 Install the MSU Thesis Template 9 2 4 Configure EXWOIKS 4 698 Nai tu oat m P e Cw a 10 20 Compile the Example Thesis 11 2 5 1 Compile Using TEXworks llle 11 2 5 2 Compile Using the Command Line 12 25 21 Compile with PDF Graphics 12 25 22 Compile with EPS Graphics 13 2 6 Compile Your Thesis ssa s ss N s ea a 13 2 6 1 Compile Using TEXworks llle 14 2 6 2 Compile Using the Command Line 15 2 6 2 1 Compile with PDF Graphics 15 2 6 2 2 Compile with EPS Graphics 16 iv 3 PREPARING REFERENCES uu A AAA A 17
30. es in the Tool Configuration window specify these parameters a Name Compile pdf b Program select Browse and navigate to select the compile pdf bat file provided in the MSU thesis template c Arguments Add an argument by clicking on the plus 4 sign in the lower right corner and type basename in the space provided d Check View PDF after running e Click OK 4 Similarly for x eps graphics files click on the button with the plus sign in the lower right corner and in the Tool Configuration window specify these parameters a Name Compile eps b Program select Browse and navigate to select the compile eps bat file provided in the MSU thesis template c Arguments Add an argument by clicking on the plus 4 sign in the lower right corner and type basename in the space provided d Check View PDF after running e Click OK 5 At the bottom of the Processing tools area for Default choose Compile pdf or Compile eps according to the type of graphics files you expect to normally use for figures Choose Compile pdf if you plan to use x jpg png and pdf files Choose Compile eps if you plan to use eps only 6 Click OK 10 2 5 Compile the Example Thesis You can compile a document either using TEX works to run a batch file or using the command line Each compile outputs a log file examplethesis log which may have er ror messages You must check for error messag
31. es at each step by examining examplethesis log TeXworks normally displays the log file at the bottom of the window in the Console output tab Unfortunately TEX error messages are not always easy to understand BIBTEX also outputs a log file examplethesis blg which may have error messages the example thesis references are purposely missing some author names and BIBTEX issues warnings accordingly You should carefully examine the fi nal output file examplethesis pdf for anything that violates the Standards Adobe Acrobat Reader seems to print x pdf files better than TEX works 2 5 1 Compile Using TgX works Use the following commands to typeset this document using TEX works 1 In the example thesis directory double click on examplethesis tex This will run TEX works and open the editor for this file 2 Edit the graphics format declaration A makes the rest of the line a comment Put a on the line you want disabled and remove the from the line you want enabled according to the type of graphics files you plan to use For example usepackage pdftex graphicx SMSUSS for jpg etc usepackage dvips graphicx SMSUS S for eps only 3 Verify that the processing tool in the space in the top left of the TEXworks window is the batch file you want for the type of graphics file you plan to use Compile_paf or Compile_eps 4 Click the green button in the top left to begin compilation 11 5 The log file will be displayed
32. es denote the end of a paragraph You can change to and from the default spacing between lines to single spacing by using the following commands Changing spacing of parts of paragraphs is not supported Enclose one or more paragraphs as shown par newspacing singlespacing vspace baselineskip This is a single spaced paragraph par newspacing defaultspacing The par vspace and baselineskip commands are standard IATEX com mands msuthesis cls defines the following command e Nnewspacing e Nsinglespacing e Ndefaultspacing 30 4 7 Justification The thesis template full justifies all paragraphs The ends of words and sentences are marked by spaces It doesn t matter how many spaces you type one is as good as 100 The end of a line counts as a space Since any number of consecutive spaces are treated like a single one the formatting of the input file makes no difference to BIEX but it makes a difference to you When you use BIEX making your input file x tex as easy to read as possible will be a great help as you write your document and when you change it 4 8 Special Considerations Because printing is different from typewriting there are a number of things that you have to do differently when preparing an input file than if you were just typing the docu ment directly See your ATEX book for details on all of the following and the source file for this chapter 4 8 1 Quotation Marks Quotation marks like thi
33. ex thesis latex thesis latex thesis dvips t letter thesis dvipdfm p letter thesis The repeated Latex commands are necessary to resolve cross references 3 The resulting log files and thesis pdf are now in the directory 16 CHAPTER 3 PREPARING REFERENCES The MSU thesis template includes the bibliography style msucs bst which BIBTEX uses to create the references section of your thesis in the style required by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering The following are examples in the References and guidance from the IEEE Computer Society regarding the information in your x bib file s Article in a collection 1 Article in a conference proceedings 18 Article in a journal or magazine 17 Book 2 13 CD ROM 14 Dissertation or thesis 7 15 Electronic publication 4 Newsletter 5 Non English source when original title is included 20 and when original title is unprintable 12 Personal communication and unpublished materials are usually not referenced be cause they are not available to the reader However footnotes can be used to give credit to such sources General thanks can be given in an acknowledgments section Standard 10 11 Technical memo 16 17 e Technical report with report number 9 and without report number 19 e Technical or user manual without authors 3 To achieve proper references and citations follow these steps and note the discu
34. hesis latex examplethesis latex examplethesis dvips t letter examplethesis dvipdfm p letter examplethesis The repeated 1atex commands are necessary to resolve cross references The resulting log files and examplethesis pdf are now in the directory 2 6 Compile Your Thesis The overall process of preparing your thesis has the following steps l pa 4 5 Make a separate directory for your thesis Copy all the example thesis files to your thesis directory Later you can throw away files that you do not need Prepare your bibliography file s x bib A bibliography file x bib is a structured ASCII file that is a database shared by all your papers and your thesis IATEX automatically creates a References list for your document selecting only those entries in the x bib file that are cited This is a major advantage of TEX Your BibTeX files bib should be in the same directory as your document See Chapter 3 Copy examplethesis tex to your own file name for example thesis tex Edit your main thesis file e g thesis tex Advanced ATEX users may take advantage of MiKTEX s directory structure and paths 13 a Edit the name of your x bib files in the definition of biblist b Edit the front matter information c Edit the signature blocks of the approval page Prepare as many blocks as you need The University allows multiple pages for very large Graduate Commit tees
35. ings Citations shall have corresponding form For example 1 cites the first entry in the references Multiple citations in one place shall be enclosed in one set of brackets in ascending numerical order delimited by commas for example 1 7 22 43 References shall follow the last chapter of text rather than at the end of each chapter If used any appendices shall follow thereafter The heading shall be REFERENCES Reference entries shall be sorted alphabetically by authors names and book title not order of appearance The style of reference entries shall conform to examples at the Department of Com puter Science and Engineering Web site which follows IEEE Computer Society practices We prefer the Computer Society style rather than the IEEE Transactions Department style http www cse msstate edu academics gradstud references php 4 The references in this document conform to departmental requirements and match IEEE Computer Society examples except for the following details Full journal and conference names are used instead of abbreviations Full state names are used instead of abbreviations Conference paper entries show the sponsoring organization and city of the confer ence instead of the publisher of the proceedings and publisher s city 1 4 Limitations of this Template The MSU thesis template has the following limitations The template supports centered style captions for figures and tables not b
36. ions capitalize the first and last words and all nouns pronouns ad jectives verbs adverbs and subordinating conjunctions even though the capitalization in the publication may be sentence style Lowercase articles coordinating conjunctions and prepositions regardless of length Example Toward Better Real Time Programming through Dataflow 25 To make a source easy for researchers to find use the title as 1t originally appears Do not add or remove hyphens change words to preferred spellings or convert to lowercase Do not include the editor s name for a conference proceedings unless it is a carefully edited volume published as a regular book The IEEE Computer Society s Web page also has detailed advice regarding references to electronic publications and other matters 3 5 Citations Standard IEX provides the cite command to insert citations into paragraphs For your convenience msuthesis cls provides commands that combine punctuation and citation For example this citation 8 is in the middle of a sentence This citation 8 is combined with a comma and this citation is combined with a period 8 Journals have various styles of citations which differ in where spaces and punctuation should go Your thesis may be one style and the final submission of a journal article may be a different style You may use the following commands so that changes are easy to make spacecite biblabels Sin the middle of a sentence commacite
37. laceholder 43 jeur T S om3 fotoo SIS BOOM SIDE saa 44 Text in your thesis is in a single column that is about 6 inches wide However text in conference proceedings is often in two columns The BIEX length textwidth is the width of all columns on a page The TEX length N1inewidth is the width of the current column The length figwidth is defined by msuthesis cls In general redefine the width of each figure relative to N1inewidth just prior to defining a figure For example for a one column figure that is almost the full width of the column you should put the following Note that Figure is capitalized setlength figwidth linewidth addtolength figwidth 0 5in Figure filename figwidth This is a Caption You can also specify fractions of a line width for example for a figure width of half a line setlength figwidth 0 5 linewidth Sometimes a figure needs to be displayed in landscape orientation The following shows how to set up and define such a figure using msuthesis cls setlength figwidth textheight addtolength figwidth 0 5in rotatedfigure filename figwidth This is a caption Long captions are supported by msuthesis cls Do not put footnotes or citations in captions because they will be repeated in the List of Figures Some journals and conference proceedings are published in two column format Some figures fit within one column but others must span both columns usually at
38. lock style captions even though the Standards allow either Captions can be longer than one line The information that might have been in a block style caption can be within the table or figure or can be in an ordinary paragraph that describes the table or figure When a subsection title immediately follows a section title a special section com mand is required to get the proper spacing between the titles See section 4 4 for details Long tables are not handled cleanly by the template If a table continues on suc cessive pages entries for the continuation pages must be manually removed from the List of Tables by editing the x Lot file which is awkward See section 5 1 for details The template supports either art work for figures in Encapsulated Postscript graph ics files eps or for figures in Joint Photographic Experts Group jpg Portable Network Graphics png or Portable Document Format x pdf for mats Art work that appears in more than one figure must be copied to files with different names Side by side figures are not supported by this template The template assumes that each figure takes the full width of a page or has white space on either side Subfigures are not directly supported by the template We have not tested IZTEX packages for subfigures available on the Web 7 http www computer org portal web publications style refs We prefer the Computer Society style rather than the IEEE Transa
39. mmands associated with fonts such as Abfseries mdseries textbf and textnormal 7 13 How can I create a superscript or subscript See your IEX book for math mode formatting symbols such as and 7 14 How can I make a fraction in an equation See your TEX book for math mode commands such as frac in displayed equa tions Stacked fractions are ugly inline in paragraphs use instead to represent division in paragraphs 7 15 How can I typeset all my references Even though BIEX provides a Nnocite command which causes all references in the bib file to be in the References section I recommend that you just put a cite command for each reference in any convenient place in your draft document Later you can add the sentences to go with each citation Because the Standards requires that all references be cited your final thesis should not use nocite at all 54 7 16 Why is there an extra quotation mark in my reference In your x bib file articles proceedings papers miscellaneous etc are expected to have an article title which will be enclosed by quotation marks If the article title 1s missing BibTeX supplies comma quote quote anyway Therefore in this template a nonempty TITLE is required in all types of references that have articles including the MISC type of reference 55 CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS The concluding chapter synthesizes the chapters in the body of the thesis explaining how the
40. mur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 40 Table 5 3 continued Item Price gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 41 The content of tables is formatted with the ATEX environment begin tabular hline headings hline tabular data hline end tabular See your IEX book for details hline creates a horizonal line Most journals discourage using vertical lines in tables and prefer few horizonal lines If at all possible use only a top horizonal line a bottom horizonal line and a line under the headings The length t abwidth is already define
41. nput filename to insert portions of a chapter into its chapter file Put all your files in the same directory 4 2 Local Definitions You can put your own local KTEX command definitions in the front of your main file thesis tex Create commands for abbreviations for lengthy mathematical expres sions or to print a word in a special font Definitions like the following should be prior to the begin document command in your thesis tex file I prefer the small caps font style Nt ext sc for acronyms As in the following exam ple most acronyms look better in the small capitals font Nt ext sc so creating similar pairs of new commands for each acronym will save you work and avoid inconsistencie for example NASA in the middle of a sentence or NASA at the beginning of a sentence Com plex combinations of fonts can be defined as commands such as Ojo is a lower bound newcommand NASA textsc nasa xspace newcommand Nasa textsc Nasa xspace newcommand thetalow theta_ mbox scriptsize rm low 4 3 Chapter Titles Use the chapter command to define chapter titles This command has been rede fined by msuthesis cls to produce proper tables of contents Long titles are supported by msuthesis cls This template provides arabic chapter numbers 28 4 4 Section Titles 4 4 1 Subsection Title without Paragraph 4 4 1 4 Subsection Title with Paragraph If there is no paragraph following a section title because a
42. o be only con tinued However each page of the table is in the List of Tables Unfortunately this must be cleaned up by manually editing the x lot file The existing version of this file is inserted into the document each time you run BIEX and then it is replaced by a new version If you edit this file then you should run IZTEX only once on your last edit cycle pdf latex if using x pdf etc graphics or latex dvips dvipdfmif using x eps graphics In summary try to avoid multipage tables to avoid this complex manual process If a table needs to span the full page in a double column publication use the NTabledbl command In a single column thesis it looks the same as the Table com mand Journals have various standards for referring to table numbers in paragraphs The fol lowing commands are defined by msuthesis cls as alternatives to the standard IZTEX command Table ref tab filename tableref filename Sin middle of sentence Tableref filename Sas first word of sentence where filename is the identifier for your table data 39 Table 5 3 Meat Prices Item Price gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram X 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 emur stuffed 33 33 armadillo frozen 8 99 gnats gram 13 65 gnats each 01 gnu stuffed 92 50 e
43. oes here In msuthesis cls you modify the Figure and Table command definitions newcommand Figure 4 newspacing singlespacing par begin figure begin center noindent includegraphics width 2 1 MSU end center caption 3 settowidth tmplen protect 4 ifthenelse tmplen gt 0 begin quote 4 end quote Send if addtocontents lof vspace baselineskip MSU for multiline caption 51 label fig 1 end figure newspacing defaultspacing newcommand Table 3 newspacing singlespacing par begin table caption 2 addtocontents lot vspace baselineskip MSU for multiline caption label tab 1 begin center input 1 settowidth tmplen protect 3 ifthenelse tmplen gt 0 begin quote 3 end quote Send if end center end table par newspacing defaultspacing 7 5 How dol fix not enough memory for figures and tables A large number of figure tables on consecutive pages causes ATEX to become confused due to limited memory When you have numerous consecutive floats i e figures or tables you should have a clearpage command between groups of three to five floats The command clearpage forces a page break and typesets all known floats beginning on the new page So you should position the clearpage commands at points you want a page break to occur s
44. of just initials You may need this information later even if your favorite bibliography style only uses initials e Author name Make sure that the order of each author name is correct first name middle name and last name Setup EndNote s Export feature to make this happen by doing the following 1 Select Edit Output Styles Edit BibTeX Export 2 Select Author Name under Bibliography You will see drop down boxes on the right side of the window 3 Select John Smith for First author John Doe for Other authors and Full name for Initials 22 Author name Edit multi word family names to enclose with braces so the entire family name is treated as the last name Author name Edit international names to add IZTEX commands for any special char acters or accents Title Edit titles to be initial caps style also called title style capitalizing the first letter of all major words not sentence style where only the first word is capitalized Title Edit acronyms in titles to be all capitalized enclosed with braces Title Edit proper names in the titles to be initial caps enclosed in braces Pages Put double hyphens instead of only one hyphen for a range of pages Book name Correct the word order of each conference proceedings book name to match the title page of the book On line databases sometimes have the title page of the proceedings book in a file called frontmatter In references to electr
45. on multiple references and right click to select Add References To thesis group 20 4 Repeat the previous steps until every reference you want to export is added in the group 5 Select File Export on the menu bar 6 Choose the directory and type the name of the file that you want to save the reference to in the File name textbox e g myBib bib 7 Click Save 3 2 Managing Your Bibliography Data You may spread you bibliography among multiple bib files e g by subject and or author If so the definition of biblist in thesis tex would look like this renewcommand biblist bibfilel bibfile2 Spaces are not allowed inside the braces 1 The ieeecsexamples bib file for this document is an example See chapters on BibTeX in your TEX book The file empt y bib has templates for various kinds of entries Use your editor to cut and paste entry templates as you need them According to your BIEX book some fields are required some are optional and some are not used in bibliographies the unused fields can to hold information for other purposes For example I like to list keywords in each bibliographic entry so I can find all references on a topic by using a text editor s find feature The following fields are never used in traditional bibliography formats but may be useful for your personal reference e KEYWORDS your favorite search terms e ANNOTE notes to yourself such as related articles
46. onic publications be sure to include all punctuation exactly as supplied hyphens and tildes in particular are very common in Web addresses Tilde is produced by Nsim in BIEX If you have a URL that has an underline you must sub stitute _ for the plain underline Do not include Web addresses in publishers databases the reference to the paper version is preferred Verify addresses you tag as URLs by copying and pasting them into your browser and seeing if the string of text that is in your document actually goes where it should If the address must run across more than one line follow these guidelines Break only after a forward slash or a dot period Do not split the double slash Do not split at hyphens tildes and so on that are part of the address Do not introduce hyphens to break words Separating the extension for example the html at the end is discouraged 24 Some examples using http www web pac com mall pacific start html Acceptable https 7 www web pac com mall pacific start html http www web pac com mall pacific start html http www web pac com mall pacific start html Not acceptable http www web pac com mall pacific start html http www web pac com mall pacific start html http www web pac com mall pacific start html http www web pac com mall paci fic start html Discouraged http www web pac com mall pacific start html In titles and capt
47. s have to be handled specially as do quotes within quotes 66 3 95 this is what I just wrote not that Don t use the double quote key for quotation marks Use the grave accent key twice for beginning quotation marks and use the apostrophe key twice for end quotation marks 3l 4 8 2 Dashes Dashes come in three sizes an intra word dash a medium dash for number ranges like 1 2 and a punctuation dash like this 4 8 3 Spaces ETFX automatically makes a sentence ending space larger than the space between words within a sentence 4 8 3 1 Space After a Period You sometimes have to type special commands in conjunction with punctuation char acters to get this right as in the following sentence Gnats gnus etc all begin with G Note that the space after etc is smaller than the space after the end of the sentence You should check the spaces after periods when reading your output to make sure you haven t forgotten any special cases See your IEX book regarding the N and commands 4 8 3 2 Ellipsis Generating an ellipsis with the right spacing around the periods requires a special command ldots 4 8 4 Special Characters IATEX interprets some common characters as commands so you must type special com mands to generate them These characters include the following amp and 32 4 8 5 Emphasized Type In printing text may be
48. sis php 3 11 12 13 14 15 e New Century Schoolbook e Palatino e Bookman Section headings and subheadings within a chapter shall be numbered style Chapter numbers shall be arabic numerals Sections and subsections shall be numbered consecutively within the next higher level section subsection A section number shall be formed by an arabic chapter numeral a period higher level section numbers separated by periods and finally the current subsection number For example 2 3 4 denotes Chapter 2 the third section within Chapter 2 and the fourth subsection within section 2 3 Text shall be full justified Italics is required rather than underline for non English titles of books and journals and similar uses Per the Standards all equations shall be numbered consecutively within chapters enclosed by parentheses and formed by an arabic chapter numeral a period and the equation number For example Equation 2 1 indicates the first equation in Chapter 2 Table and figure captions shall be centered style with title style capitalization 10 Table and figure numbers shall be consecutive within chapters and formed by an arabic chapter numeral a period and the table figure number For example Figure 2 indicates the first figure in Chapter 2 Reference entries shall be consecutively numbered enclosed by brackets as is com mon in IEEE Computer Society journals and conference proceed
49. ssion in sections below 1 Get bibliographic data and articles from publishers databases Plan your bib files one vs multiple Create an abbreviations bib file Edit the body of your thesis x tex inserting citation commands 2 3 4 Edit your x bib files 5 6 Compile your thesis 7 Check the body of your x pdf thesis for unresolved citations which look like this Correct the citation code or your x bib file s 8 Check the references in your x pdf thesis for complete information and correct format Correct your x bib file s where necessary 3 1 Using EndNote and BIBTEX This section explains the advantages of using EndNote and BIBTEX to manage your bibliography data EndNote is a software package for papers and publications written with MS Word that organizes bibliographies and therefore saves time in writing articles term papers theses and dissertations EndNote imports references from publishers databases without the need to manually enter the reference information and formats the resulting ref erences BIBTEX manages bibliography data for documents written using BIEX BIBTEX has many benefits such as ease of changing bibliography style consistency of bibliogra phy entries and correct numbering and sequential ordering of bibliography entries How ever BIBTEX does not interface with publishers databases Therefore using EndNote 18 and BIBTEX together helps reduce the time
50. t e This is the first item of an itemized list Each item in the list is marked with a tick The document style determines what kind of tick mark is used e This is the second item of the list It contains another list nested inside it The inner list is an enumerated list 1 This is the first item of an enumerated list that is nested within the itemized list 2 This is the second item of the inner list KIEX allows you to nest lists deeper than you really should This is the rest of the second item of the outer list It is no more interesting than any other part of the item e This is the third item of the list 4 12 Poetry You can even display poetry There is an environment for verse Whose features some poets will curse For instead of making Them do all line breaking It allows them to put too many words on a line when they d rather be forced to be terse 34 4 13 Common Abbreviations msuthesis cls provides commands to produce abbreviations of common Latin expressions for compatibility with various journals Some journals require italics and some require Roman fonts The abbreviations are etc e g i e et al and vs Various publishers prefer different fonts for certain abbreviations The following commands are available to provide flexibility when a thesis chapter is published as a journal article Vete Vie Neg etal vs Note that periods after abbreviations are included inside each command
51. tabular environment in a file filename tex The following shows how to set up and define such a table setlength tabwidth textheight addtolength tabwidth 0 5in rotatedtable filename This is a Caption This makes the rotated table 0 25 inch narrower on each side than one page height about 8 5 inches Sometimes a table is in a graphics file Each of the following commands have similar arguments as the corresponding Figure commands below Tablewithfigure filename tabwidth Caption Goes Here Tabledblwithfigure filename tabwidth A Caption rotatedtablewithfigure filename tabwidth A Caption This template does not handle long tables cleanly The following is a workaround If your table is longer than one page you must segment the content into multiple files Use 37 uorjuorio edeospuer ul st 918 STULL 38 668 uezol o ppeune tete Poms muo 0S T6 pognis nus 10 yoro sjeua UUINJOI IPIM 19A B C9 c wreis syeus suumn oo 9IJOUI 9IIH HW odeospueT so ug WIN TS EL an ordinary NTable command for the first page and then use a NTablecontinued command for each following page For example the following commands create a table with two pages Note that the table number does not change Table pricesfirst Meat Prices first page Tablecontinued pricesnext continued next page The MSU Library requires the caption of second and following pages t
52. the type of graphics files you plan to use Compile pdf or Compile eps 14 4 Click the green button in the top left to begin compilation 5 The log file will be displayed in the Console output tab at the bottom of the TEXworks window 6 The resulting thesis pdf will open in a new TEXworks window If there is an error the Console output tab will show the error message Press the red X button in the top left where the green compile button was to cancel the compile 2 6 2 Compile Using the Command Line If you prefer not to use TEX works to run the batch file you can run the commands in the batch file at the Windows command line one by one 2 6 2 1 Compile with PDF Graphics The following steps will compile your thesis for pdf x png and x jpg graphics files 1 Open the Windows command line window and navigate to your thesis directory 2 Atthe Windows command line run the following commands pdflatex thesis bibtex thesis pdflatex thesis pdflatex thesis pdflatex thesis The repeated pdf latex commands are necessary to resolve cross references 3 The resulting log files and thesis pdf are now in the directory 15 2 6 2 2 Compile with EPS Graphics The following steps will compile your thesis for x eps graphics files 1 Open the Windows command line window and navigate to your thesis directory 2 At the Windows command line run the following commands latex thesis bibtex thesis lat
53. thesis 2 less than 350 words for a dissertation 3 100 150 words for IEEE journals and 4 less than 250 words for conference papers Write a report in miniature which means it has a self contained message that does not expect the reader to look at the paper Answer the questions What How and Why Use no citations footnotes or equations Use no superlatives you are not selling anything Do not use acronyms and mathematical symbols unless absolutely necessary Key words thesis dissertation LaTeX book design format template DEDICATION To Angie 11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank contributors to this template s software especially Mr Matthew C Funk who improved the template in Spring 2012 I thank Mr James Nail of the MSU Library for his guidance regarding MSU standards I thank Angie Allen for helpful discussions regarding book design At a minimum you should acknowledge financial support permission to use copy righted materials trademarks and service marks and personal assistance The following is a hypothetical example edit it with your information and add your personal feelings This work was supported in part by grant CCR 999999 from the National Science Foundation The findings and opinions in this thesis belong solely to the author and are not necessarily those of the sponsor Permission to reproduce the MSU logo was given by Mississippi State University Unix is a registered trademark of The Op
54. uch as between consecutive figures 52 7 6 How can I refer to a list of equations tables or figures Here are three examples of lists of references eqnsref aaa ref eq bbb andeqnref ccc Tables ref tab aaa ref tab bbb and ref tab ccc Figures ref fig aaa ref fig bbb and ref fig ccc 7 7 How can I make a table heading span more than one column See your IEX book for commands associated with the tabular environment such as multicolumn 7 8 Why is a missing inserted When your x 10g file has this warning Missing inserted this is most often caused by the use of underline characters in nonmath mode If you have a filename URL etc that has an underline in the middle of a paragraph you must substitute V for the plain underline Plain underline is interpreted as a subscript command in math mode STEX assumes you want to begin math mode 7 9 How can I typeset John Wiley amp Sons in a reference BibTeX fields can have KIEX commands like paragraphs Ampersand is a special char acter See your BIEX book for escape sequences for special characters such as X amp 7 10 How can I typeset a tilda in a URL Tilda is a special character in BIEX A similar symbol looks good in URLs It is created by simS See Section 3 4 53 7 11 How can I change to single spacing See Section 4 6 7 12 How can I change to bold and then back to normal print See your IZTEX book for co
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